Arthurdale, WV
Arthurdale, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arthurdale at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 861 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arthurdale at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
861 buildings are counted in Arthurdale, and 99.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Arthurdale against the rest of the country
Arthurdale scores 47th nationally and 32nd within West Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arthurdale ranks 16,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,076 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 290 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Arthurdale and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Arthurdale rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Arthurdale's 99.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arthurdale's 16,784-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Arthurdale, see the exposure-zones guide.